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Sheltering women : negotiating gender and violence in northern Italy /
"Residents of Parma, Italy pride themselves on their sophistication and connection to European modernity. But despite this reputation for civility, intimate-partner violence continues to take place, largely hidden from public view. Through a detailed ethnography of two women's shelters - o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Residents of Parma, Italy pride themselves on their sophistication and connection to European modernity. But despite this reputation for civility, intimate-partner violence continues to take place, largely hidden from public view. Through a detailed ethnography of two women's shelters - one leftist, the other Catholic - this book explores the political, cultural, and legal contexts of competing explanations for intimate-partner violence." "Some contend that violence against women reflects the cultural and historical gender inequalities embedded in Italian society, including "old-fashioned" or "traditional" understandings of masculinity. Others argue that it stems from confusion and ambivalence over "new" or "modern" forms of gender relations. The first explanation places the blame on tradition and the second cites the transition to modernity, but both emphasize societal understandings of gender and point to collective, rather than individual, responsibility. Through an intimate portrayal of everyday life, Sheltering Women reveals how violence against women can be studied as one part of a continuum of locally relevant understandings of gender relations and gender change."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 250 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780804767866 0804767866 |